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MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS

EIN 20-2986926 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$7,026,874
Expenses 2024
$10,197,111

Program services were 87.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1200
Street
3543 18TH ST STE 23

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

MUAis an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women with the mission of growing our personal and community power to achieve social and economic justice. Personal transformation and civic-political participation go hand in hand.

  • The California Domestic Worker Coalition is made up of 11 organizations statewide that organize both domestic workers and their employers to advocate for better wages, more stable employment and healthier working conditions for domestic workers. In 2024, our coalition reached a major milestone by concluding the first iteration of the California Domestic Worker Education and Outreach Project (DWEOP), a first-of-its-kind in the country pilot program aimed at addressing wage theft and other widespread workplace violations affecting domestic workers. This program was carried out in partnership with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the State of California.Together, our coalition organizations reached thousands of workers across the state. Here are some of the numbers: -Coalition organizers and member leaders made over 290,000 outreach contacts with workers-Held almost 600 labor protections & Know-Your-Rights workshops,resulting in over 15,000 workers trained-Made over 74,000 outreach contacts with Californias domestic employers to support them to create fair working relationships with the people they employ in their homes-Recuperated almost half a million dollars of stolen wages back into the hands of workers. In the second half of 2024 we initiated the application process to renew our partnership with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in order to continue and strengthen DWEOP for another 5 years, after having won the allocation of an additional $35 million in the state budget for this purpose. We are excited to expand this work in the coming years, reaching tens of thousands of additional domestic workers statewide. In September, we celebrated the historic signing of SB 1350, authored by our legislative champion Senator Maria Elena Durazo of Los Angeles.Since 2020, our coalition has led a tireless campaign to end the exclusion of domestic workers from the states occupational safety and health laws. Together, we brought the voices and creative leadership of domestic workers to the State Capitol. SB 1350 amends the legal code in California to include the more than 175,000 domestic workers who are employed by agencies under Occupational Health & Safety protections. In October, in anticipation of the renewal and expansion of DWEOP, the Coalition transitioned out of being housed at Mujeres Unidas y Activas to a new fiscal sponsor, the Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund. As part of this move, we transferred more than $3 million in accumulated assets from MUAs bank accounts to those of our new fiscal sponsor. This move will help ensure that we have the administrative capacity to efficiently manage and implement a significantly expanded statewide program, allowing us to take on additional partner organizations.

    Expenses $5,844,102 · Grants $4,498,379 · Revenue $2,943

  • Healing and personal growth programs: MUA continued offering a variety of wellness and trauma recovery programs to members, including peer counseling, grief support groups, parenting groups, Zumba, nutrition, arts for healing, and group coaching. A total of 1236 immigrant women participated in one or more of these programs in 2024. Organizing/Basebuilding: In 2023 and 2024, MUAs Crecer la Base (Grow the Base) team of organizers received intensive training and regular coaching from the Groundswell Organizing Institute, which in turn strengthened our basebuilding capacity. In 2024, we exceeded our anticipated outcomes in this area, reaching 1415 immigrant women (goal: 800-1000), of which 950 expressed interest in receiving further information (goal: 400-600), and 408 new women began participating as members (goal: 150). Vocational training: 170 women participated in vocational training workshops in 2024. Topics included: CPR certification for childcare workers, negotiating a fair wage, ergonomics for caregivers, non-toxic housecleaning, using your phone to look for employment, and more. (Goal: 85)Leadership development: MUA offers the following leadership training series. -Basebuilding Training (3 sessions)-Group Facilitator Training (4 sessions)-Peer Counselor Training (4 sessions)-Leadership for Community Power Training (6 sessions) -Grassroots Fundraising Training (1 session)In 2024 a total of 56 women graduated from one or more of these training series, with a majority participating in at least two of the series. (Goal: 50) 102 women participated in one or more leadership committees, this was a significant increase from the steady 70-75 total active leaders weve had every year for the last three years. Grupo Mam: MUA currently offers twice monthly peer support groups in the Maya Mam language to Guatemalan women for whom this is their native language, and now provides community services navigation and peer counseling in Maya Mam in our Oakland office every day of the week. To date, over 170 Indigenous Maya Mam women have participated in one or more of MUAs programs, with approximately 35 Mayan women participating on a regular basis. In collaboration with Canticle Farm, in 2024 Grupo Mam expanded a community garden project in the Fruitvale area of Oakland. As of 2024, there are now Maya Mam speakers in every program and committee in MUA. In late 2023 our Board created two spots for Mam speaking members, with the goal of ensuring that Indigenous women have a voice in our decisions. In 2024, we brought our Mam Program Coordinator onto the management team. Another two Mam leaders are representing nannies and housecleaners on the Leaders Council of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arts and culture: In collaboration with NAKA Dance Theater, MUA has been offering a variety of therapeutic and cultural arts programs to our members. In 2024 this included bordados feministas - an project to reclaim sewing circles as a feminist act via the embroidery of messages of empowerment onto patches that were then sewn into a quilt and displayed in local cafes and art galleries. Another project which ran from mid 2023 to late 2024 was the Weaving Wisdom project, in which Mayan Indigenous women from different municipalities of Guatemala met every Saturday at our Oakland office to engage in traditional weaving of Mayan clothing and to teach one another the designs of their regions. As a result, they produced new weavings that interwove the designs and colors of different regions into new beautiful pieces of art/clothing. These were then displayed for over a month in a beautiful art exhibit at EastSide Arts Alliance. Experienced weavers led guided tours of the exhibit for non-Mayan MUA members and allies, showing off their cultural and artisanal expertise. Advocacy Campaigns: Through our coalition work, in 2024 we achieved various policy victories statewide and locally, including:-The passage of SB686, a new statewide law which requires agencies that hire and employ domestic workers to comply with the CalOSHA guidelines -- the first ever enforceable health and safety legislation for domestic workers in California. -With EBASE (a local labor rights organization), we advocated for implementation of Oaklands Measure Z -- a law which we helped pass in 2019, which increased wages for hotel cleaning staff and created the Department of Workplace Enforcement Standards (DWES) in the City of Oakland. We arranged for DWES staff and prosecutors from the Alameda County District Attorneys office to meet with low-wage domestic workers and hotel workers to hear evidence on specific cases of severe exploitation and to advocate that they enforce laws against wage theft and sexual harassment in the workplace.

    Expenses $3,079,024

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Juana Flores

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $117,308
    From this org
    $110,027
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,281
    Hours/week
    40

  • Layla Cooper

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $111,965
    From this org
    $98,110
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,855
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jill Shenker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $17,544
    From this org
    $17,544
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yolanda Macias

    Director

    Total calculated
    $15,900
    From this org
    $15,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margarita Torres

    President

    Total calculated
    $3,187
    From this org
    $3,187
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sandra Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $3,187
    From this org
    $3,187
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martha Herrera

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $2,910
    From this org
    $2,910
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adriana Embriz

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $1,913
    From this org
    $1,913
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Floridalma Carrillo

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $1,400
    From this org
    $1,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Blanca Guevara

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $1,110
    From this org
    $1,110
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Venecia Margarita

    Director

    Total calculated
    $1,047
    From this org
    $1,047
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Vicente

    Director

    Total calculated
    $632
    From this org
    $632
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrea Salinas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,026,874
    Expenses
    $10,197,111
    Contributions
    $6,768,868
    Grants paid
    $4,498,379
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,286,337
    Expenses
    $7,136,455
    Contributions
    $7,152,247
    Grants paid
    $1,187,358
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,248,871
    Expenses
    $5,822,860
    Contributions
    $10,197,442
    Grants paid
    $1,110,582

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,303,064
    Expenses
    $6,134,286
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,268,795

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,138,825
    Expenses
    $4,767,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,306,898

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,314,797
    Expenses
    $3,075,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,556,767

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,293,960
    Expenses
    $2,694,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,330,402

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,041,026
    Expenses
    $2,249,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,624,960

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,820,267
    Expenses
    $2,400,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,819,777

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,362,915
    Expenses
    $2,054,590
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,439,618

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,792,112
    Expenses
    $1,552,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,045,610

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,767,300
    Expenses
    $1,524,762
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,781,827

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

  • DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

    $569,400

    2022 HUMAN SERVICES

  • DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

    $551,000

    2023 HUMAN SERVICES

  • SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

    $535,000

    2022 PROGRAM - TO SUPPORT BAY AREA ESSENTIAL WORKER COALITION AND EQUITY AT WORK COUNCIL. PROGRAM - TO SUPPORT EQUITY AT WORK COUNCIL. PROGRAM - TO STRENGTHEN WORKER PROTECTIONS. PROGRAM - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. ADVISED - FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT OF CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS COALITION.

  • DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

    $528,100

    2024 HUMAN SERVICES

  • SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

    $526,500

    2023 TO SUPPORT THE CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS COALITION. TO SUPPORT THE CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS COALITION, FOR OUTREACH, EDUCATION, AND ADVOCACY WORK ON SB 686. FOR THE CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS COALITION, TO PARTICIPATE IN REWORK THE BAY'S EQUITY AT WORK COUNCIL. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. TO SUPPORT WORK IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: ALAMEDA, CONTRA COSTA, MARIN, SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN MATEO. TO SUPPORT THE CALIFORNIA DOMESTIC WORKERS COALITION. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

  • TIDES FOUNDATION

    $490,000

    2022 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • TIDES FOUNDATION

    $457,500

    2023 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • TIDES FOUNDATION

    $332,500

    2024 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • TIDES CENTER

    $309,000

    2023 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • GROUNDSWELL FUND

    $238,000

    2024 Program Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.